Bionic hand almost as good as a transplant
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EUROPEAN surgeons and engineers have devised a mind-controlled bionic hand that restores function almost as well as a flesh-and-blood transplant, but without the risk of rejection, a research paper published in the Lancet on Wednesday.
The three Austrian beneficiaries of the unprecedented technique had suffered injuries in car and climbing accidents to the “brachial plexus” — nerves running from the spine to the upper limbs.
This type of injury is like a sort of “inner amputation,” irreversibly separating the hand from neural signals.
The three patients received their futuristic robot appendages in surgeries between April 2011 and May 2014. Oskar Aszmann of the Medical University of Vienna invented the technique and said it was less risky than a hand transplant.
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